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Bill: Immigration Reform Act
Details
Submitted by[?]: اراده مردم (People's Will)
Status[?]: defeated
Votes: This is an ordinary bill. It requires more yes votes than no votes. This bill will not pass any sooner than the deadline.
Voting deadline: June 2321
Description[?]:
| In order to prevent the circumventing of national immigration laws. Any claim of refugee status will be inspected to ensure that the applicant is infact meets one of the following critiria; 1) Persection, either dirrect or tacitly encouraged, on the basis of race, religion, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, or other intrensic charectoristic, that threatens direct harm or legitimately impedes said applicants ablity to live their daily lives. 2) Threat of violence or imprisonment by the government or other organization on the basis of political dissodence by the applicant or the applicants family or associates. 3) Sudden or Suddenly increased economic stress created by natural disaster 4) The legitamate threat of violence visited upon the applicant or the applicant's family by any group for any reason should the applicant remain in their country of origin. An applicant will be allowed to stay in the country and given due integration aid while their claim is prosessed and investigated. Should an applicant's claim be found to be unfounded, they will be given the option of being sent to a government integration center, as are illegal aliens found in this country, or returned to their country of origin, and integration aid will be stopped. With regaurd to illegal aliens, those found found will be put into integration centers as currently mandated by national law, however the stance taken by police forces in actively searching for illegal aliens will be decided by state and/or local governments. |
Proposals
Article 1
Proposal[?] to change
The government's stance on illegal aliens.
Old value:: The government does not actively search for illegal aliens, but puts them in integration centers when discovered.
Current: The government does not actively search for illegal aliens, but puts them in integration centers when discovered.
Proposed: Dealing with illegal aliens is left to local governments.
Article 2
Proposal[?] to change The national refugee policy.
Old value:: All refugees are welcome, regardless of their reason, and given aid in integrating them into the country.
Current: Only refugees that are victims of extreme circumstances are welcome; they are given integration-aid.
Proposed: Only refugees that are victims of extreme circumstances are welcome; they are given integration-aid.
Debate
These messages have been posted to debate on this bill:
| Date | 13:38:57, November 24, 2006 CET | From | Aldegar Social Democratic Party | To | Debating the Immigration Reform Act |
| Message | We disagree, as we think that if local governments decided how actively to search for illegal aliens, we could end up with things like the Minuteman Project in Arizona, for example. |
| Date | 22:51:55, November 24, 2006 CET | From | اراده مردم (People's Will) | To | Debating the Immigration Reform Act |
| Message | Uh...the minutemen aren't a government organization on any level, however, if local governments could control their imgration policy, as they are in a better position to judge what enforcement measures must be taken and what will work, such things would unnessisary. |
| Date | 03:34:40, November 26, 2006 CET | From | Union Liberty Alliance | To | Debating the Immigration Reform Act |
| Message | We disagree with this also. |
| Date | 05:01:39, November 27, 2006 CET | From | اراده مردم (People's Will) | To | Debating the Immigration Reform Act |
| Message | Why? |
| Date | 13:47:25, November 29, 2006 CET | From | اراده مردم (People's Will) | To | Debating the Immigration Reform Act |
| Message | OK, don't answer. |
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Voting
| Vote | Seats | |||
| yes | Total Seats: 57 | |||
| no | Total Seats: 348 | |||
| abstain | Total Seats: 95 |
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